Charl Myles Willoughby (born 3 December 1974) is a retired South African

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er who played two

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and three

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s for

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between 2000 and 2003. He played for Boland and

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before spending two seasons with the

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. He has also played English

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, and after a season with

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in 2005, and played for

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from 2006 to 2011 and

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in 2012. He is a left-arm fast-medium pace bowler and a left-handed batsman. He was educated at

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, and Windsor (now Kenwyn) Primary School.

Career

South Africa

Willoughby made his one-day debut for Boland in October 1994 against

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. Opening the Boland bowling, he finished the match with 1/44, claiming future South Africa national team head coach

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as his first wicket. His first-class debut came just under two weeks later, against

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. Willoughby claimed three wickets in the first-innings, and two more in the second as the match was drawn. He finished his first season with 15 first-class wickets, at a

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of 35.73. In the 1998–99 season, a string of good performances saw Willoughby selected to play for South Africa A against the touring

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. Although his first match in international colours passed without him standing-out, in the following match for Boland, also against the West Indians, Willoughby claimed his maiden five-wicket haul, finishing with figures of 5/60, including the wicket of

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. By the end of the season, he had claimed 36 first-class wickets, almost double the number he had taken previous to that summer. He made his international debut late in the following 1999–2000 season, appearing in a Coca-Cola Sharjah Cup match against

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. Opening the bowling, Willoughby claimed two wickets in a 65 run defeat. After spending the winter playing club cricket in England, Willoughby was selected to tour the

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with South Africa A, where he played two matches against

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and four against West Indies A. He joined

for the 2000–01 season, where he remained until the end of the 2004–05 season, when he joined

. Three wickets for South Africa A in each of the one-day matches against 'The Rest' in February 2003 led to his inclusion in the

(ODI) squad for the 2003 TVS Cup in

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. He played twice in the tournament without taking a wicket, and hasn't appeared for South Africa in ODIs since. His

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debut came during the same tour, during the first Test against

in April 2003. He claimed a solitary wicket, that of

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during the match. He retained his place in the Test squad for the tour of England, playing in three tour matches and the first Test at

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. In a drawn match, he bowled 20 overs in the first-innings without taking a wicket, and wasn't asked by captain

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to bowl in the second.

England

He has also played for

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and for

from

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. In 2006 he was the leading wicket taker for Somerset in first-class cricket as he took 66 wickets at an average of just over 25 in a season which included career bests of 47 batting against

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and 7/44 against

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. He also performed consistently in

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, a season in which Somerset achieved promotion to the first division of the

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as well as the

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. It was announced in November 2011 that Willoughby has joined

on a two-year deal.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Willoughby, Charl 1974 births Living people South African cricketers Berkshire cricketers Boland cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Somerset cricketers Essex cricketers Western Province cricketers Cape Cobras cricketers South Africa One Day International cricketers South Africa Test cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Alumni of Wynberg Boys' High School South African expatriate cricketers in England